University of Colorado at Denver
F428, AMC Bldg 500, Rm W1126
Aurora, CO 80045 303/724-0090
NSF Program(s):
ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS
Field Application(s):
0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s):
HPCC, 9215, 2884, 1687, 1652
Program Element Code(s):
1687
ABSTRACT
ITR: Collaborative Research: DDDAS:
Data Dynamic Simulation for Disaster Management
Janice L. Coen, Craig C. Douglas, Leopoldo P. Franca, Robert Kremens,
Jan Mandel, Anatolii Puhalskii, Anthony Vodacek, and Wei Zhao
This project will develop advanced Information Technology tools, mathematical models, and prototype infrastructure for disaster modeling and management. The project will bring comprehensive information and numerical prediction where it is needed, at the disaster command center, in real time.
The system will incorporate large volume of information from data streams, e.g., as maps, sensor, surveyance, and weather data, and the mathematical model will run on remote supercomputers. The model will be controlled by dynamically available data, and the results visualized in distributed devices, like laptops and palmtops connected to the Internet by wireless ethernet and a broadband satellite link. Other sensors and airborne imagers will also be networked wirelessly. The core of the envisioned modeling system will be an existing computer model of wildland and weather around the area, adn these models will be rewritten from scratch using modern software engineering methodology as a data driven application, and enhanced by new mathematical
modeling techniques together with advanced statistical
techniques will be used to manage uncertainty. High-performance middleware will be used to
connect computational nodes, sensor nodes, surveyance nodes, and visualization nodes into a
distributed information and modeling system. New network software technologies will make
the communication between the nodes secure and provide quality of service guarantees. The
system will be designed to tolerate interruptions of communication, increased latencies, and node
disappearances.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
A. Ononye, A. Vodacek, and E. Saber. "Towards automated extraction of fire line parameters from multispectral infrared images," Remote Sensing of Environment, v.108, 2007, p. 1389.
Beezley, JD; Mandel, J. "Morphing ensemble Kalman filters," TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, v.60, 2008, p. 131-140.
C. C. Douglas and G. Haase. "Algebraic multigrid and Schur complement strategies within a multilayer spectral element ocean model," Contemporary Math., v.329, 2003, p. 89.
C. C. Douglas, J. Hu, J. Ray, D. T. Thorne, and R. Tuminaro. "Cache aware multigrid for variable coefficient elliptic problems on adaptive mesh refinement hierarchies
," Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications, v.11, 2004, p. 173.
C. C. Douglas, Y. Efendiev, R. Ewing, V. Ginting, and R. Lazarov. "Dynamic data driven simulations in stochastic environments," Computing, v.77, 2006, p. 321.
C.C. Douglas, Deng Li, T. Kako, M. Suzuki, and I. Hagiwari. "On a Novel perturbation expansion method for coupled systems of acoustics and structures," Computer and Mathematics with Applications, v.51, 2006, p. 1689.
C.C. Douglas, Y. Efendiev, V. Ginting, R. Lazarov. "Dynamic data-driven application simulation framework for contaminant transport problems," Computer and Mathematics with Applications, v.51, 2006, p. 1633.
Deng Li and C. C. Douglas. "Dynamic Data-Driven Application Simulation Projects (in Japanese)," Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, v.15, 2005, p. 75.
Glueck, DH; Karimpour-Fard, A; Mandel, J; Hunter, L; Muller, KE. "Fast computation by block permanents of cumulative distribution functions of order statistics from several populations," COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-THEORY AND METHODS, v.37, 2008, p. 2815-2824.
J. Mandel and B. Sousedik. "Adaptive Selection of Face Coarse Degrees of Freedom in the BDDC and the FETI-DP Iterative Substructuring Methods," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, v.196, 2007, p. 1389.
J.L. Coen. "Simulation of a wildfire incident using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling," Intl. J. Wildland Fire, v.14, 2005, p. 49.
Jan Mandel, Clark Dohrmann, and Radek Tezaur. "An Algebraic Theory for Primal and Dual Substructuring Methods by Constraints," Applied Numerical Mathematics, v.54, 2005, p. 167.
Jan Mandel, Lynn S. Bennethum, Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice L. Coen, Craig C. Douglas, Minjeong Kim, and Anthony Vodacek. "A wildland fire model with data assimilation," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, v.in prin, 2008.
Johns, CJ; Mandel, J. "A two-stage ensemble Kalman filter for smooth data assimilation," ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS, v.15, 2008, p. 101-110.
L.P. Franca, A.L. Madureira and F. Valentin. "Towards multiscale functions: Enriching finite element spaces with local
but not bubble-like functions
," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, v.194, 2005, p. 3006.
L.P. Franca, A.L. Madureira, L. Tobiska and F. Valentin. "Convergence analysis of a multiscale finite element method for singularly perturbed problems," Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal, v.4, 2005, p. 839.
L.P. Franca, G. Hauke and A. Masud,. "Revisiting stabilized finite element methods for the advective-diffusive equation," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, v.195, 2006, p. 1560.
L.P. Franca, J.V.A. Ramalho and F. Valentin. "Enriched Finite Element Methods for Unsteady Reaction-Diffusion Problems," Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, v.22, 2006, p. 619.
Leopoldo P. Franca, Jairo V. A. Ramalho, and Frederic Valentin. "Multiscale and Residual-Free Bubble Functions for Reaction-Advection-Diffusion Problems," Int. J. Multiscale Comput. Engrg., v.3, 2006, p. 297.
Li, Y., A. Vodacek, and Y. Zhu. "An unsupervised statistical segmentation algorithm for fire and smoke regions extraction," Remote Sensing of Environment, v.108, 2007, p. 171.
Li, Y., A. Vodacek, R.L. Kremens, A. Ononye, and C. Tang,. "A hybrid contextual approach to wildland fire detection using multispectral imagery," Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v.43, 2005, p. 2115.
R. Kremens, J. Faulring, A. Gallagher, A. Seema, and A. Vodacek. "Autonomous field-deployable wildland fire sensors," Intl. J. of Wildland Fire, v.12, 2003, p. 237.
S. Wang, D. Xuan, R. Bettati, and Wei Zhao. "Providing Absolute Differentiated Services for Real-Time Applications in Static-Priority Scheduling Networks," IEEE Transactions on Networking, v.12, 2004, p. 326.
